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Bangs and Bradlee, Birds of Bermuda. 



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Auk 

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The Goldfinch is now a common bird in Bermuda, but is exceed- 

 ingly shy and wary. 



Two specimens were secured during the season just past. 



Passer domesticus (Linn.) . 



House Sparrow. 



Introduced in 1S74 (a few some time before that date), it is now 

 exceedingly abundant throughout the islands. 



Cardinalis bermudianus Bangs e- Bradlee, sp. nov. 

 Bermuda Cardinal ; " Red Bird." 



Type, from Hamilton, Bermuda, $ adult, No. 39132, Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology. Collected Mar. 2, 1901, by T. S. Bradlee. 



Characters. — Wing short, shorter even than in C. carditialis JJori- 

 danus Ridgw ; proportions otherwise (except those of bill) about as in 

 C. cardinalis cardinalis. Bill peculiar; bright vermilion in color; 

 short, stout and abruptly pointed ; culmen much curved ; upper mandible 

 grooved, angle very abrupt, and edge very much lobed ; lower mandible 

 equal in depth to upper. Colors of $ very bright, lower parts orange- 

 vermilion (vermilion in C. cardinalis cardinalis) top of head and crest 

 also orange-vermilion. Colors of 5 much as in C. cardinalis Jloridanus, 

 — much intermixed with red on breast and cheeks, — red of crest paler, 

 more of an orange red. 



Measu refnents. 



